Jennings and Rutter played against Watson the following month at IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Laboratory in Yorktown Heights, New York, with then-host Alex Trebek emceeing. And the action kicked off on ...

One year after IBM’s Watson defeated two of the greatest champions in Jeopardy history, the supercomputer is taking a “job” on Wall Street helping banking giant Citigroup analyze data. It would be ...

In January, President Obama handed the reins to Joe Biden to head a "moonshot" initiative to cure cancer, and a major step toward that end has just been made. At the National Cancer Moonshot Summit on ...

IBM Watson’s three new application program interfaces available to developers boost the supercomputer’s emotional and visual capabilities. The cognitive APIs are available to developers in beta form, ...

A new ad campaign for IBM Watson seeks to highlight the supercomputer’s ability to solve business problems, and in one ad, Cleveland Clinic physician Andrea Sikon, MD, discusses with Watson how to ...

Two and a half years ago, in early 2011, an IBM-developed supercomputer named Watson won a Jeopardy! tournament against two human opponents. It was simultaneously fascinating (computers are cool!) and ...